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Onitsha weather

Anambra · 1,553,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 17:53

Raining now Air: Very poor Hot · 1 d Moderate storm risk · Tomorrow, Sat, Sun

33°

Clear sky

Feels like 45°C

Wind

2 km/h

Gusts

6 km/h

Humidity

61 %

Pressure

1011 hPa

Clouds

15 %

Storm

Rise 06:18 Set 18:14 Day 11 h 55 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Clear sky

33°

Feels like 45°

Wind ↑ N 7 km/h

Humidity 61 %

Evening

Mainly clear

29°26°

Feels like 42°

Wind ↑ SSW 9 km/h

Gusts 26 km/h

Humidity 78 %

💧 0.1 mm

19:00

29°

0.1mm

SSE 7

22:00

26°

SSW 9

Onitsha forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Onitsha climate: what a normal year looks like

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from October to June; the typical peak is 35 °C in February.

The hottest stretch is February, when afternoons average 35 °C; the coldest is August, when nights average 23 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,460 mm of rain — more than 74% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 32 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (30 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	35 °C	23 °C	11 mm
Feb	35 °C	25 °C	22 mm
Mar	35 °C	25 °C	65 mm
Apr	33 °C	25 °C	122 mm
May	31 °C	24 °C	171 mm
Jun	30 °C	24 °C	210 mm
Jul	29 °C	23 °C	201 mm
Aug	29 °C	23 °C	196 mm
Sep	29 °C	23 °C	221 mm
Oct	30 °C	24 °C	186 mm
Nov	32 °C	24 °C	48 mm
Dec	34 °C	23 °C	10 mm
Whole year	32 °C	24 °C	1,460 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 6.15° N, 6.79° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Onitsha: pollution and pollen

5/6

Very poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.571µg/m³

PM1075µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Onitsha

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Onitsha, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Onitsha yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Onitsha

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 07:17 Set 20:24

Fri 30/10 79%

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Lagos); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Onitsha

Curious about the weather in Onitsha on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Onitsha weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Onitsha, Anambra: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 33 °C (feels like 45 °C) and the wind blows at 2 km/h.

Expected range today: 26 °C to 33 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms; it will be very hot. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

Other big cities nearby

Benin City 130 km 33°

Aba 133 km 32°

Warri 134 km 33°

Yenagoa 148 km 32°

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations